Sara Borgstrom
Tokyo International University
Sara Borgstrom is a Global Teaching Fellow at the Global Teaching Institute at Tokyo International University. Since graduating with an MA TESOL from Middlebury Institute of International Studies of Monterey in 2016, she has been active in establishing international communities through her work and travels, and has a special interest in language identity, learner agency, and community building.
Sessions
Fostering Community in an Online Classroom
In distance learning, it is important to consider how we foster a community in our classrooms to encourage a collaborative and productive learning space for our students. In this workshop, I aim to explore and share some practical group activities and online tools I have used to foster and maintain a strong classroom community in a fully online space and discuss how these elements have positively impacted my first-year university students in Japan.